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Just 11 more years, and this baby is all ours! Last week, we received our escrow account statement letter from our mortgage lender. (Don't worry, it gets more interesting. I promise.) For the first time in the four years we've lived here, our...

Several years ago, my sister told me and J that we had taught her that she could afford anything, as long as she saved up for it. We knew she was paying us a compliment, but at the time, J and I looked at each other wondering if we needed to brush up...

So many choices of where to stash your cash... A few weeks back, regular reader and commenter frugal_fun asked about where a Dollar Stretcher reader could park their hard-earned savings. You may remember that I have been a long time customer of ING Direct...

This is my student loan debt payoff thermometer: I currently owe $4376.57 to Mohela , the lender that gives evil corporate banks a bad name . With a monthly payment of $600, I am on track to have this loan paid off in July. Hopefully I'll have little...

This afternoon, I sat down to reconcile my check register with my bank account. I generally do this about once a week, although traveling and having J and LO off of work/school has thrown off my routine. That meant I had nearly three weeks worth of transactions...

LO is a morning person. He wakes up, eager to greet the day and get started on his important tasks of drinking juice, playing, reading, watching Cars , and asking for more juice when he's been told no more. Unfortunately, his zest for the beginning...

J and I have separate checking accounts, but we both bank with the same institution, Huntington Bank. For the most part, I have been very happy with Huntington over the years. But I do have a beef with how they handle transfers between J's and my...

Abby Freedman Perry of I Pick Up Pennies had an interesting piece on her blog the other day about emergency funds . It started an interesting conversation in the comments about the nature of an emergency fund and how to save the recommended six months...

I recently signed up for Bill Me Later with PayPal. This is yet another method that the financial world has come up with so that you can get yourself in debt. But, I signed up for Bill Me Later for a very good reason. I was purchasing a gift certificate...

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